The TV Show That Scared the Crap Out of You as a Kid Will Now Be a Movie

Soon, Are You Afraid of the Dark? is going to ask you that same question on the big screen.

If you had cable and were somewhere around 8 years old in 1994, you probably developed an unnatural fear of boats. That’s because whatever you were watching on Nickelodeon would be suddenly disrupted by a dinghy lit only by the moon, followed by an eerie swing set, and oh my lord that CLOWN with the LAUGHTER. If you were not legitimately freaked out by the intro to Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, you may not be human. So prepare yourself, because it’s going to be a movie.

Gary Dauberman, the writer behind It—now the biggest horror movie of all-time—is reportedly writing an Are You Afraid Of The Dark? movie. The films is based on the ‘90s YTV/Nickelodeon show in which children who called themselves the “Midnight Society” gathered around a campfire in the middle of the night to tell each other scary stories and completely mess with viewers.

"The show is about the shared experience of telling stories—especially scary ones. We're going to celebrate that with this movie and honor the darker, scarier tone of the show, which was really groundbreaking for Nickelodeon at the time,” Dauberman told the Hollywood Reporter.

Here are some terrifying plots of AYAOTD that I’m remembering off the top of my head but that have stayed with me and permanently scarred me in some way:

The one where the evil art teacher gets this guy to paint himself into a painting forever.

The one where there’s a ghost in the mirror next door.

The guy who is trapped in the pinball machine for the rest of his life because he played pinball at work.

THE HAUNTED DOLL.

THE HAUNTED POOL.

The ghost librarian who steals your voice.

I realize how ridiculous these might sound now, but trust that I am still very much afraid of the dark, and this entire property. Have fun seeing this movie without me.